Wintering out: Arbon Valley families leave and come home, 1917–18
In the fall of 1917 many Arbon Valley families left their farms for the winter, a few stayed by choice, and in March 1918 the valley columns counted them home.
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In the fall of 1917 many Arbon Valley families left their farms for the winter, a few stayed by choice, and in March 1918 the valley columns counted them home.
The papers caught the valley's Relief Societies at their meetings, socials and dances, and obituaries printed decades later name the women who had led them.